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I just installed Linux Mint 17.1 on a 32 GB SSD, and 9.9 GB are occupied by the folder ".10117". I'm wondering what it is, because unless it's crucial, I really need that space. Inside of it are two ...

I noticed that I never figured this out completely. Linux maps SATA and USB (and many more kind of) storage devices to /dev/sd[a-z] device files in the order in which they were "found". Now given that ...

I'm recently working on optimizing the performance of tar -xf, i.e. untar a file.
I notice that under default settings, tar -xf calls writes to write 10 KiB output at a time in chunks. However, this ...

I have a server which stores a lot of data, I keep many nested directories with millions of files in them.
While trying to move one big directory (~700GB) from one disk to another I get an error:
mv ...

I've got a beaglebone black rev B (2gb storage) and I want to use it to run owncloud as a self-hosted cloud. The beaglebone comes with 2gb of storage, which means that it has just enough room for the ...

I'm assuming that this means that if the average file stored (including directories etc) is less than 16384 bytes, it may be possible to run out of inodes before using the full storage capacity of the ...

I am developing an API in Unix environment for virtual machines. I have to store some information in a table about virtual machines.
Currently I am using python dictionary of virtual machine objects ...

I've got a running GPS watch (Garmin Forerunner 210, fwiw) which recently got bricked during a firmware update. Let's assume for point of discussion that an rma is not possible, so I'd really like to ...

How can I setup a shared storage location on a storage server shared via CIFS and NFS and all files written by CIFS and all users via NFS to write files and folders with full read/write permissions ...

I'm having a bit of trouble here. I'll try and be as concise as possible in describing my objective:
I'm setting up a storage server for my employer, using two Intel DC S3500 series 120GB solid state ...

For various benefits Linux uses a memory cache for writes to removable stogare devices like memory sticks. This cache seems to be quite large on my system, which leads to some annoying behavior. For ...

I have realized that I need to protect all of my photographs against bit rot (file corruption occurring at random due to errors in hard drives or network transfer).
I recently discovered par2 which ...

Is there any backup tool that supports partial back up by date? What I mean is that I have some small drives such as on a laptop that can't hold a full copy of all the files on an external 2TB drive. ...

I have 320 Hard Disk but in the picture in Computer Properties, it says capacity is 45GB. Which is obviously not true.Anyone know why? I don't want to have less storage than I do in real life, I want ...

I'm having a little problem with my USB stick. There are files and folders on the USB stick I can see and manipulate on my Linux machine (Fedora 20) but some of those files and folders appear nowhere ...

Problem I have a Linux machine (Slackware) with two network interface cards and i want to use one interface for network traffic and other for storage traffic . As this is Slackware i dont know this ...